Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

Find Your Why is the follow up to Start with Why, the global best seller and the subject of the third most watched TED Talk of all time. With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. Now, along with two of his colleagues, Peter Docker and David Mead, Sinek has created a guide to the most important step any business can take: finding your why.

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work. This is not a crazy, idealised notion. In many successful organisations, great leaders are creating environments in which teams trust each other so deeply that they would put their lives on the line for each other. Yet other teams, no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure. Why? Today's workplaces tend to be full of cynicism, paranoia and self-interest.

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how - by saying less and asking more - you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.

The Culture Engine shows leaders how to create a high performing, values aligned culture through the creation of an organizational constitution. With practical step-by-step guidance, listeners learn how to define their organization's culture, delineate the behaviors that contribute to greater performance and greater engagement, and draft a document that codifies those behaviors into a constitution that guides behavior toward an ideal: a safe, inspiring workplace.

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Int'l Edit.)

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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

This is the promise of The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni's bold manifesto about the most unexploited opportunity in modern business. In his immensely readable and accessible style, Lencioni makes the case that there is no better way to achieve profound improvement in an organization than by attacking the root causes of dysfunction, politics, and confusion.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Why do naturally talented people frequently fail to reach their potential while other far less gifted individuals go on to achieve amazing things? The secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a passionate persistence. In other words, grit. MacArthur Genius Award-winning psychologist Angela Duckworth shares fascinating new revelations about who succeeds in life and why.

Key Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to Become One of the Most Highly Valued and Highly Paid People in Your Industry

Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunities. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This audiobook shows you that there is a five-step strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by listening to this audiobook.

The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage

How to enrich your life and destroy doubt in five seconds. Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends, and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your life and work is simply knowing how to push yourself?

Work Rules!: Insights From Inside GoogleThat Will Transform How You Live and Lead

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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

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A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

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Publisher's Summary

The title says it all: carrots and sticks don't work.

Reward and recognition programs can be costly and inefficient, and they primarily reward employees who are already highly engaged and productive performers. Worse still, these programs actually decrease employee motivation, because they can make individual recognition, rather than the overall success of the team, the goal. Yet many businesses turn to these measures first - unaware of a better alternative.

So, when it comes to changing your organizational culture, carrots and sticks don't work! What does work is Dr. Paul Marciano's acclaimed RESPECT model, which gives you specific, low-cost, turnkey solutions and action plans-- based on seven key drivers of employee engagement that are proven and supported by decades of research and practice - that will empower you to assess, troubleshoot, and resolve engagement issues in the workplace:

Recognition and acknowledgment of employees' contributions

Empowerment via tools, resources, and information that set employees up to succeed

Partnering to encourage and foster collaborative working relationships

Expectations that set clear, challenging, and attainable performance goals

Consideration that lets employees know that they are cared about

Trust in your employees' abilities, skills, and judgment

Carrots and Sticks Don't Work delivers the same proven resources and techniques that have enabled trainers, executives, managers, and owners at operations ranging from branches of the United States government to Fortune 500 corporations to 20-person outfits to realize demonstrable gains in employee productivity and job satisfaction.

When you give a little RESPECT, you get a more effective organization with reduced turnover and absenteeism and employees at all levels who are engaged, focused, and committed to succeed as a team. In short, you get maximum ROI from your organization's most powerful resource: its people!

This is a great book. Every manager or leader should read this! It has good examples of how to change the culture in your business. I have already recommended this to several people and clients (I am a business coach). Read well ( if a little fast!)

What other book might you compare Carrots and Sticks Don't Work to and why?

Dan Pink's Drive because it offers a simpler approach to the same issue of engagement. The two are good together. Not opposing viewpoints but different ways of getting to the same end.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Slightly cynical or condescending inflection, way too rapid reading, mispronunciation of words all of which highly detracted from the kind, thoughtful content.

Do you think Carrots and Sticks Don't Work needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

No. I think he gets his point across.

Any additional comments?

Don't let Richard Broski read any other books until he learns how to pronounce words like concomitant, Appomattox, and subsequent correctly, SLOW DOWN and drop that tone. I wanted the info but I found myself getting angry at the delivery. It was a struggle not to go buy the book so that I didn't have to listen to this reading.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Timothy Craggette

Gaithersburg, MD United States

12/09/12

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"Searched for a read, Found a treasure!"

I didn't initially go looking for this book or any book like this. In my line of work, I wasn't looking for a solution to a problem. I simply like to read books that open my mind to new ways of thinking or something to challenge my way of thinking. Perspective.

Then I found this book, Carrots and Sticks Don't Work.

What this book explains is Paul's view on the systems most businesses use to motivate employees, how it fails to achieve lasting results, and his system for a content workforce.

This book made me think of why, in my professional career, I was not happy with my employers. I would try to make things right by changing my way of thinking to match culture or something like that but this book opened my eyes to glaring issues in the reward systems used today that are not giving the right people the needed reasons for staying committed to the organizations. Also, I became aware of my disengagements from companies as an overachiever that was overlooked, overworked, and undervalued. This book, backed by case studies and Paul’s personal experiences, painted the picture I needed to move forward pass some of my own demons and has provided me a better understanding of why things are the way they are and a radical solution to address it with minimal effort.

I would highly recommend this book to any and all low, mid, and high level supervisors/managers/leaders/HR that want to help people first and focus on a purpose driven atmosphere that encourages the most common need in all of us...RESPECT.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Paul

PLEASANT GROVE, UT, United States

25/03/13

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"Breathe!"

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

No, the lack of pause in the narration is very distracting. I appreciate the ideas and concepts but they are very hard to digest because it all comes at you so fast. I'm sure I would enjoy the written text much more.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Carrots and Sticks Don't Work?

The stories and examples help bring to life the thoughts the author wants to convey.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrator is aweful! Again, it is like an audio assalt. Someone must have thought that it would be a good idea to edit out all pauses, even the slightest ones. As a result the guy sounds like a robot. No human being could string that many words/sentences together without a single breath. Extreamly difficult to listen to and at times hard to follow as I commute to and from work.

Any additional comments?

I don't fault the author at all. I think the content is very good. He clearlly knows what he is talking about and I have learned many things that I am putting into practice. My only issue is with the narration. As an audiobook I would not recomend it to others.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Ed

CA, USA

18/08/15

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"Voice for audio book is horrible."

The voice of the person who read this is really bad with almost no affect in his voice. It almost sounds like computer text to speech.The book contents are great and really worth it.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Amber

Fort Collins, CO, United States

01/04/15

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"Lots of basic theory, repeated ad nausea"

I found there to be no real practical solutions offered to address employee engagement. The idea that respect is an important part of employee engagement is addressed at the very start of the book, however instead of trusting that readers would understand this, much of the book seems to be spent reiterating this point. It is important to build this sort of argument on research-based evidence, however when presenting it in a commercial, public-friendly format such as this I would expect the bulk of these supporting arguments to be found in the “further reading” section, not repeated over and over under slightly different chapter headings.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Edward E. Pallas

Maryland

23/07/13

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"Good book, poor narrator"

If you could sum up Carrots and Sticks Don't Work in three words, what would they be?

Operant conditioning reworded

Would you be willing to try another one of Richard Broski’s performances?

No thank you.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Good leadership principles.

Any additional comments?

The narrator, Mr. Marciano, has a good voice but he speaks very fast. To give you a clue I will type the rest of this the way Mr. Marciano speaks. Heleavesalmostnospacebetweenhiswords,tothepointthelistenermustreallyconcentrateinordernottofollowthebook. Hisrateofspeakingisjusttoofastforme.

3 of 4 people found this review helpful

Nykoal

Ontario, Canada

01/10/13

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"Great content but the narrator spoke too fast"

Would you listen to Carrots and Sticks Don't Work again? Why?

It has great content that's backed up with research and real-life examples and experiences. If you're looking for ideas and rational into why engagment needs to be intrinsic and not extrinsic motivation, this is a great book to start with.

What didn’t you like about Richard Broski’s performance?

While Bronski has an easy voice to listen to he sounds rushed and often times I had a hard time catching what he was saying. He sounds like he's speaking too fast and it would have been nice if he slowed the pace down just a bit. He needs to leave time for the the words to resonate with the listener.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

awood

18/06/17

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"Excellent"

one of the best management books I've read. Concise and very practical. Not a single part of the book where I didn't feel like I was learning something new and never did I feel like it was being redundant or stretching to make a complete book like so many helper books do

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

NoneofYourBeezwax

18/03/17

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"great book"

it would have been nicer if it was louder, the audio was hard to hear at times.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

CRS

Texas

06/05/16

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"Good concepts, poor performance"

This book on employee engagement provides few, if any, ground breaking insights but is well organized and pretty thorough. The performance is VERY poor with numerous mispronunciation sand a dull monotone. I recommend reading this book, not listening to it.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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